Hey Chicago! Please join us Sat. Nov 8, for a Commemorative Marker Presentation & Historic Walking Tour in the Loop. Sponsored by Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project, which I co-direct, Chi Public Library, Chi Loop Alliance, Organic Oneness & Firebird Community Arts. Register in comments

If you're in Johannesburg this evening, this event will be amazing and kick off 3 days to mark the tenth anniversary of the 2015 student and worker movement! Re-membering Movements Colloquium at the Humanities Graduate Centre, Wits University.

As Albert Einstein said, "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." Trump's a wannabee general--despite lying about his health to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. About the last thing he is a man of peace. (imo his desire to change the name of DoD to Dept of War is accurate)

Want to see how ISRAEL IS STARVING--WHICH IS TO SAY MURDERING--TWO MILLION PALESTINIAN HUMAN BEINGS? Blockade all food and see what happens to the prices thereby making buying food impossible. #genocide #ethniccleansing

Please join us for the 7th Annual Bike Tour to commemorate the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. This is a journey of truth to bring justice and healing. It's an educational, fun, healthy, political historical bike tour thru Bronzeville & Bridgeport in Chicago. Everyone is welcome! Registration link below

trump must be impeached AND CONVICTED THIS TIME. NO president has the Constitutional right to start a war. ONLY Congress can do so. If Congress doesn't move to impeach trump, they might as well rip up the Constitution which they (and trump) swore an oath to uphold.

I'm excited to present at a virtual seminar on heritage and public history based in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday, 19 June, 3 pm (South Africa time) / 8 am (CST). I'll discuss "Doing Public History: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project." No need to register, just click on the link!

Hey Berlin! On Tuesday, 3rd June, I'm excited to give a presentation on the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project, hosted by Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University Berlin. Hardenbergstraße 16-18, room 002. The lecture is 6.15-8.00 p.m. and open public, so please join us!

trump tariff flip-flops are pathetic and destructive. tbh it's amazing how bad a dealmaker he really is and how much chaos he chooses to impose--and how much his supporters allow him to destroy the US economy (FYI: I'm not opposed to all tariffs but these utterly fail in every way that he claims)

Call for Proposals for Newberry Library Labor History Seminar. Our seminar provides a forum for works in progress that explore historyes of working-class people, communities and culture. Our focus has been the US but papers on N America or transnationalism welcome. We're going all virtual. Join us!

I'm very excited to be part of a wonderful roundtable on the history of gender and dockers! This Thursday at Univ of Siena. Not in Tuscany that day? No problem! Doncha know there's a remote option. FYI: Siena is 6 hours ahead of Eastern standard time in US. Thanks to Erica Mezzoli for inviting me!

"many Americans now identify with a politics of production that is rooted in symbolism...when asked whether they want to do Factory work, the answer is usually no...What people want is not the factory—but what the factory used to represent." Will Shoki nails it again in @africasacountry.bsky.social

Solidarity with Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna who were targeted by the IOF for selling books in Jerusalem at the Educational Bookshop. Bookselling is not a crime!!!

Jesse Owens saluting during the medal ceremony after defeating Nazi Germany's Luz Long at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Happy Black History Month to Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Among the finest people I've ever known, I got to know Howard Keylor while doing research on his union, @ilwu.bsky.social Howard was a working-class hero, revolutionary, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and 150% union proud. He made it to nearly 99 before crossing the bar. I loved the man. Presente!

OTD in 1969 the Alcatraz occupation in SF Bay began! Joseph Morris, a longshoreman in ILWU Local 10 & Blackfoot, played a key role b/c he secured an unused Pier from which the transfer of all people + supplies occurred! Morris wrote, “I was the Alcatraz troubleshooter and mainland coordinator.”